Alan Pownall: True Love Stories | CD review

(Mercury)You have to give this sunny songwriter credit for not changing his name to something groovier than Alan. He's also honest enough to admit his musical experience is "limited" – but some of it was with his London neighbours, Mumford & Sons, whose upmarket rootsiness obviously made an impression. Though most of his debut album is lazy-day pop sweetness, there's a cobwebbed, Mumfordian tinge to a few tracks – Clara, The Others – that warrants a second, even third, listen. But Pownall...

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